Herbold Racing!

From the driveline vibration video yesterday it seemed like there was excessive play up front.  So today I took a video to check the motor mounts.  I popped it in gear and held the brakes and revved the motor up a few times.  Then I popped it into reverse and did the same thing.  The [...]

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There is an odd vibration happening when the car shifts from first to second – at the bottom of second there is some pretty intense vibration that goes away as the RPM increases. The guy who sold me the car said it has a bad u-joint. So I jacked up the rear of [...]

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Today my Thanksgiving vacation officially starts!  I took the Dart for a slow cruise around the neighborhood.  Nothing seems amiss – the wheels stayed on! 

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I just finished greasing up the ball joints (had to put together the grease gun, etc).  And I also tightened all the castle nuts and put the cotter pins in them.  I had to use a washer on one of the ball joint castle nuts – tightening it made the nut go way [...]

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Ryan Johnson over at Shady Dell Speed Shop just took some pictures of the R1A block I bought.  Here they are:

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I put the front end back together. Tomorrow morning I will put on the wheels and gently lower the car back to the ground and see if she’ll stand on her own 4 feet again. At that point I will super-tighten everything up. Then it is off to the store to get [...]

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